AUGUST CR MEME

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CR MEME

It’s CR Meme time! It's time to touch base with where players are at with their characters in game and look towards the future! While not a requirement, CR Memes are helpful in forging connections with others, along with general housekeeping for what characters are up to during their time in game.


Below is a helpful form to use in laying out your thoughts!

FORM

<b>Player Name:</b> Your name here. <b>Player Contact:</b> What’s the best way to reach you? <b>OOC Limits:</b> Any hard limits for RP go here. <b>Character Name:</b> Your character name here. <b>Canon:</b> Your character canon here. <b>Residence:</b> Where are they currently staying? <b>Notable CR:</b> Any notable/close CR you want to mention? Roomies? Canonmates? Sworn enemies? <b>Skills:</b> From your application, what skills do they have? <b>Aurora Feat:</b> If applicable. Add any further notes here! <b>Wanted CR:</b> Friends? Mentors? Hunting buddies? Lovers? State preferences here. <b>Unwanted CR:</b> Not keen on romance? Mortal enemies? State preferences here. <b>Day to Day:</b> Where can your character be found typically? Are they sitting in the old church? Out fishing in the Basin? What do they get up to? How do they try to pass the time? <b>The Story So Far / Plans:</b> What have they been up to lately? What are your plans for them? <b>Anything Else?:</b> You know what to do.

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[astrogator]

Player Name: Mili
Player Contact: PM, through the game Discord, or sailthesky - feel free to add me!
OOC Limits: See my permissions but most of it is unlikely to come up

Character Name: Lieutenant Arilanna Tayrey
Canon: Original character
Residence: 24 Blackrock Road, Milton
Notable CR: Kostya is her new 'friend and comrade' aka best spacer buddy. She likes Randvi a lot, is warming to Bigby, and is getting to know a bunch of others. Chloe and Levi get points for learning her card game from space.
Skills: She passed the spacer lieutenants' exam. She knows things. Copy/paste from my app: knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, skill with vehicles, maps and charts, navigation, technical drawing. Her apprenticeship included learning how to calculate and chart by hand, although she's more used to advanced computers. She is also trained with firearms, trade and contract negotiation, basic mechanical repairs and expedition survival skills. She has some leadership experience.
Aurora Feat: Old Bear's Blessing. I haven't played with it much yet and she'll deny that anything supernatural is going on, but I have a prompt where some of the negative effects catch up to her over here (#3) if anyone's interested.

Wanted CR:
- More friends! She gets on especially well with military and/or space types, but I'm up for her getting to know just about anyone.
- I also love the kind of CR where two people don't really get along but respect each other's skills and are able to work together.
- She's also interested in casual one night stands so if anyone would like to complicate CR that way, let me know! I'm not looking for it to turn romantically shippy because she's not up for that. (NB: I FTB once a thread starts getting explicit but am happy to discuss what would have happened.)
- Someone teach her Morse code please. She's a quick learner.

Unwanted CR: No romance please. I also love playing with hierarchical/mentoring relationships, but I'm not interested in found family presented as family because she won't relate to it.

Day to Day:
Tayrey spends most of her time in Milton, where she does a lot of foraging and chopping firewood. Her refusal to accept 'charity' means she does a lot of trading and tends to collect anything she thinks might be of value later. She enjoys playing cards and will happily teach the games she knows or learn new ones.

The Story So Far / Plans:
Once every two or three months she makes the journey to the coast, taking with her a sled that she made, laden up with 'trade goods'. She is a Tradeline officer and she is trying to establish a line of trade. The next trip is late August. If anyone wants to make the journey with her, she'd appreciate the company but will not accept help with the sled - that would mean having to give the helper a cut of her profits. Her capitalism has principles!

I also want an opportunity to play out her Old Bear-induced berserker rage someday because she'll be so embarrassed afterwards, both about losing control and having to be looked after post-collapse. Please let me know if you'd be up for this - it's probably a CR development shortcut if they can understand why she feels the way she does!

ASSUMED CR: Tayrey has been in Milton for months now and since the population isn't huge, I'm happy to assume some CR even if we haven't threaded yet! If your character has also been around a while, they could know:
- she's from a starship
- she introduces herself as 'Lieutenant Tayrey'. Her first name is not a secret to anyone but she's not comfortable being called by it alone.
- if they don't have a distinctive rank or title, she will address them as 'Citizen' (instead of Mr, etc)
- she always says 'peace and prosperity' in place of 'hello'
- she doesn't eat meat
- she looks for 'fair contract' in any exchange and won't accept gifts or people doing things for her without payment

Anything Else?: Tayrey facts:
- She is still very creeped out by the idea of eating meat.
- She is instantly flustered by captains. It doesn't matter what kind of captain, but it's very specific - higher ranks than that won't really mean anything to her, but captains are a Big Deal.
- She has never seen so many paper books before and is afraid of damaging them.

[desperate_times_right]

Randvi will be leaving Milton for the coast in September so they won't be travelling together, but they might meet down there depending on what happens with the event.

She can also share the info about the radios if Ari hasn't heard yet!

[astrogator]

That would be brilliant! It's a pity I haven't got more flexibility on her travel date, but I kind of need her on the beach before the end of August for that TDM prompt. I'd love for them to meet up there, either for September event stuff or trade route chat if Randvi would be happy to work together on that? And yes, please tell her about the radio!

[desperate_times_right]

We will see what the event holds lol but I will look at it with Ari in mind! Randvi is working on a trade route as well so that's definitely something they could chat about.

[sputnik]

reaches for all the things, I know I owe you an older tag for some Ari World Lore & Trade Route chats, and will be finally properly getting to my inbox this week! I can also definitely see Kostya volunteering to head with her for that late August trip for some company + to keep an eye on her / provide some back-up in case trouble comes along.

And he'll definitely want to have a look at that radio if he learns she has one — he also knows Morse code, so if you don't get any other takers for that, Kostya could be an option to teach her! While I know Russian Morse code is a bit different, he'd have been required to know English pretty well to quality to be a cosmonaut, so it's safe to assume he could go the English route with it!

[astrogator]

Yes please, bring me all the things!

Thinking about it, it could be interesting if when they're travelling together, she notices that he's ill and asks him about it. She might be worried if they're literally days from anything in the middle of nowhere and she thinks he's sick. That could either lead to him telling her about it, or if he wouldn't just then, an excuse for her to really want to get a radio when they reach Silverpoint, for future actual emergencies!

I'd love for him to teach her Morse Code! There is a certain handwaviness in that Ari doesn't actually speak English. She knows four languages (one of which is vaguely reminiscent of Russian) but they're all from her galaxy and don't even use an Earth alphabet. But I figure whatever translation magic lets her understand people and read things will work for Morse Code too, whichever type he teaches her! She is very used to 'signal lights' to send messages in space if comms go down, so she'll pick it up quickly.

[sputnik]

Ohhh I love that idea, I'm so here for it and I can see him telling her about it then! He'd want to prepare her for the worst-case scenario, aka if he happens to pass out and throw up an entire creature out here... Kostya's dumb stubborn self heading off on expeditions in his condition...

And that would be perfect, I've been gently handwaving about Translation Things too / rolling with the Game Magic At Work so I'm happy to extend that to Morse code! I think he'd be really excited to get to teach someone something again LOL, it's been a while, especially for anyone so enthused & quick to learn! And likewise, he'd be so interested to learn all the things about communications in her world. All this exchange of information is such good enrichment 😌

[sputnik]

And here is a (lengthy; I might have rambled a little!) starter for you at your convenience! Feel free to let me know if you prefer anything adjusted :D